Quoting Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>:
I object. This requirement will keep us in the 1970s forever. It has
already inflicted enough damage in forcing untold millions to learn
vi.
This distinction between /bin and /usr/bin is completely artificial.
If initrd (or whatever) was able to find our /, it should be able to
find our /usr.
At present, FHS 2.3 states:
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3.4. /bin : Essential user command binaries (for use by all users)
3.4.1. Purpose
/bin contains commands that may be used by both the system
administrator and by users, but which are required when no other
filesystems are mounted (e.g. in single user mode). It may also contain
commands which are used indirectly by scripts. 1
[snip]
1. Command binaries that are not essential enough to place into /bin
must be placed in /usr/bin, instead. Items that are required only by
non-root users (the X Window System, chsh, etc.) are generally not
essential enough to be placed into the root partition.
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I would appear that system init is one of those things that should rely
on "essential" things only (because it is itself in charge of mounting
those unmounted file systems). At least IMHO.
Basically, you should submit such a change request to FHS folks, given
that Fedora strives to implement that standard as close as possible.
Systems like Solaris stopped making the /bin /usr/bin distinction a
while ago, but that doesn't necessarily mean Linux (or Fedora) should
do the same.
Note that I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your proposal (nor am I
necessarily agreeing :-), but merely pointing out the state of
standards Fedora is attempting to implement at present.
--
Bojan
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